Plot

Pathologists investigate three deaths in one night in the same ward and suspect hospital staff of their murder.

The day after Professor Silverlake, consultant neurologist at the Dartmouth London hospital, has railed at three patients for smoking and drinking on the premises, all three are found dead. Silverlake, apparently the last doctor to visit the ward, later goes berserk with a rifle and is killed by police snipers. The ward's night nurse is also found dead. Nikki is deeply upset at having to perform an autopsy on a little girl who was murdered, apparently by Jason Bodle, on whom Silverlake once performed life-saving surgery, and wonders if the professor allowed himself to be shot out of remorse. Whilst Bodle is committed as unfit to plead, Silverlake's daughter, Naomi, asks Nikki to help clear her father's name of murder.—don @ minifie-1

Nikki Alexander is having difficulty dealing with her latest case, the murder and rape of an 8 year-old girl. She was on her way home from school when a stranger struck on the head and was raped post-mortem. The DNA evidence shows Jason Bodle as the attacker, though there is some question as to his sanity. Leo and Harry meanwhile investigate three deaths on the same night in the same ward at a local hospital. All three patients had been seen the night they died by Dr. Nigel Silverlake, a neurosurgeon, though why he was seeing patients in a general ward is not obvious. Silverlake also knew Jason Bodie, a former patient whose life he saved some years before. Silverlake had been out of sorts and when he begins randomly shooting in the park outside his house, he is killed in what seems to be a case of suicide by cop. With Silverlake accused not only of killing the three patients but also for the death of the little girl for having once saved Bodie's life, his daughter Naomi asks Nikki to look into to her father's case and clear his name.—garykmcd